Stinky Sanitation Inventions

I love finding out how things work and the twelve inventions mentioned in this book have made living in our modern world a bazillion ad infinitum times better than our ancestors! I am old enough that I lived in homes without flushable toilets and where a truck came to suck out the waste. Boy, would......more

This book had a simple lay out with interesting facts. I certainly know more about toilet paper than I ever thought I would know. And I now know what a pomander is. So there's that.......more

I know this probably sounds bizarre, but when I saw the cover and title of this book I knew I had to read it. Have you ever heard of a garderobe? It was the medieval version of a toilet. It featured a small opening which enable the waste to fall down, usually into the moat. Did you know "the average......more

I guarantee that kids will love the subject of this book. Kids love gross, kids love lists and trivia and kids love to say ..... yewwwwwww!!!! There are many opportunities in this book to be grossed out but also many opportunities too learn interesting facts regarding sanitation in our modern day wo......more

Three cheers for the brilliant problem solvers who rescued us from our stinky selves. No need to blush. Our bodies were designed to expel waste, but without some creative sanitation inventions we would still be steeped in stink (how fast can you say that?). Stinky Sanitation Inventions takes the rea......more